Lenovo Teams With Atto

Atto Technology, Inc. teamed with Lenovo Corporation to deliver its FibreBridge 7600 as a component in their MetroCluster continuous data availability solution.

FibreBridge 7600 hardware accelerated protocol converters enable synchronous site-to-site replication up to 300km, by providing low latency 32Gb FC connections to Lenovo ThinkSystem DM series storage arrays while maintaining high resiliency. FibreBridge 7600 supports up to 1.2 million IO/s and 6,400MB/s per controller.

“We’re very happy to provide Lenovo with our third gen FibreBridge for their MetroCluster solution.  We developed FibreBridge as a unique and powerful tool for scaling storage while providing network functionality to SAS storage,” said Tim Klein, CEO, Atto. “OEMs and integrators are starting to realize just how flexible FibreBridge is and are figuring out ways of leveraging its capabilities and hardware-accelerated performance.“

MetroCluster enhances the built-in HA and non-disruptive operations of Lenovo systems with NetApp ONTAP software, providing an additional layer of protection for the entire storage and host environment.

“Atto accelerated protocol bridges allow our OEM customers to design flexible, dis-aggregated solutions for infrastructures that demand high performance with low latency,” said Peter Donnelly, manager, products group, Atto.  “Unlike software-based protocol conversion, typically seen in storage servers, FibreBridge uses Atto xCORE hardware acceleration processors to convert protocols in hardware with no software interaction.  This dramatically increases performance with negligible added latency, enabling architects to build dis-aggregated solutions with direct-attached performance.“

FibreBridge 7600 is part of the XstreamCORE product group, which are tested and certified for compatibility with storage platforms.

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